>> a lot of people feel differently. there was a big uproar about this online, talking about it, angered about the expense. >> back when bush picked cheney, everyone talked about social security and used the word the kabucki dance. everyone's talking about optics, it was bad optics this week with the economy the way it is, to have michelle obama over there. frankly, i agree with roland this doesn't affect everybody. taxpayer money was used, but the big issue to me is, it took the white house five days or so of this being the top story before they came out and said, she's taking a friend overseas whose father died, it was only three of them, not 40 of them. it took them so long to respond the damage is done. then have you "people" magazine wanting to know why she was gone and the president was spending his birthday alone. >> i don't know who cares because it was on matt drudge.